The 2012 enforcement guidelines Sample Clauses
The 2012 enforcement guidelines. In September 2012, the Competition Bureau published a final version of its new enforcement guidelines on the abuse of dominance, replacing the 2001 guidelines (‘the 2012 guidelines’).1104 The 2012 1100 Such as the Predatory Pricing Enforcement Guidelines, published by the Competition Bureau in July 2008, available at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/eic/site/cb-‐bc.nsf/eng/02713.html. 1101 See the 2009 draft guidelines ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/eic/site/cb-‐bc.nsf/eng/02942.html. This document gives much more clarity on ‘business justifications’ than the enforcement guidelines of July 2001. See ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/eic/site/cb-‐bc.nsf/eng/01251.html. 1102 2009 draft guidelines (ibid.), page 17. The Bureau adds: ‘Beyond this definition, there may be general business justifications that are not strictly credible efficiencies or pro-‐competitive rationales, but might nevertheless be accepted as valid by the Tribunal’. 1103 Ibid. The Bureau adds: ‘When assessing any cost-‐related business justification, the Bureau will focus on verified efficiencies that do not arise from anti-‐competitive reductions in output or service’.